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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

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[–] dns@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

My solution was worse than most: replace one -> one1one You are only going to do the replace all for each number and if the "e" is also in eight it is still there for the next set of replace.

A better quick and dirty solution from Mastodon was to just add the common character first: twone -> twoone

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I just check every substring haha

[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

The problem is that 21 is not the only problematic combination.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

That's an esthetic abomination, but very clever

[–] damium@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

You can also use o1e as there are never more than a single shared character. It also doesn't change the string size so it can be done in place. Still an ugly hack of a solution.

[–] SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

I have hacked together the ugliest of solutions and got my two stars but at what price?

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just saw this community and it looks cool even though I'm probably not capable of solving most of the puzzles. But having looked through the community, I can only really find solution threads. Where are the actual puzzles posted so I can give it a go?

[–] dns@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago

https://adventofcode.com/2023 The first question is public, login to get your test data and submit your answers and unlock part 2.